China cat adopts and nurses baby rat with her kittens!
| Cat adopts rat
(ANANOVA) |
A pet cat in China has adopted a rat
which she is nursing alongside her four kittens.
Sun Shujun, of Yantai City, says the rat has been
living with her cat since the kittens were born
four weeks ago.
Sun, 81,
says that a neighbour came to see the kittens
on the day they were born and was amazed
to see a rat suckling alongside them.
“At the beginning,
I thought I must have seen wrong.
So I took a flashlight and had a clear look,”
said the neighbour.
The rat not only drinks cat’s milk,
but also plays with its kitten
‘brothers and sisters’,
according to the Qilu Evening Post.
The cat reportedly treats the rat
exactly the same as her natural kittens
and it has become part of her family.
Sun reckons her maternal instincts
must have overwhelmed her predatory
instincts to allow her to adopt an animal
she would normally see as prey.
wow i wish my dog would do that or my cat shadow that is so cute i have 2 rats plus the female had babys and they are both girls but when i got it from the pet shop i did not now she was ppregnet puut the rat babys are black ans white and thier are 8 we are giving them to the pet store today we are only keeping 1 boy
jada - July 3, 2008 at 4:45 pm |